Prevent Duty for Schools

As part of Our Lady & St Werburgh's Catholic Primary School's ongoing safeguarding and child protection duties we are fully behind the government's Prevent Strategy.

From 1 July 2015 all schools have been subject to a duty under section 26 of the Counter-Terrorism and Security Act 2015, in the exercise of their functions, to have “due regard to the need to prevent people from being drawn into terrorism”. This duty is known as the Prevent Duty for Schools.

At Our Lady & St Werburgh's , we build pupils’ resilience to radicalisation by promoting fundamental British and Catholic values and enabling our pupils to challenge extremist views. 

The statutory guidance refers to the importance of Prevent awareness training to equip staff to identify children who may be suspectible to being drawn into terrorism and to challenge extremist ideas.

If you would like to read the official Prevent Strategy for schools documents you can download it here: Prevent_Duty_Guidance__England_Wales_V2-Interactive.pdf

The school's policy in working with the Prevent Strategy can be found here

 For more information about the Prevent Strategy for parents, we have created a pamphlet that can be read and downloaded below.

Staff who have completed Prevent Training

Staff

Mrs Wilson (including Level 2 training)

Mrs Ford

Mrs Nield

Miss Girbow

Mrs Durkin

Mrs Haigh

Miss Clarke

Mrs Walley

Miss Forrester

Mr Burgess

Ms Shilvock

Mrs Cliffe

Mrs Carter

Mrs Thompson

Miss Abbotts

Mrs Samways

Mirs Gibson

Mrs Shufflebotham

Mrs Cartlidge

Mrs Wheat

Mrs Smith

Miss Cope

All lunchtime supervisors have also completed Prevent training this academic year. 

Governors

Fr A Madej

Mr O’Hara

Mr Carter